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May 31, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
A fun thing about how far down the rabbit hole the current iteration of Durham nonsense was -- "Alfa Bank" was mentioned on five (5) editions of Sean Hannity's program before this year. If it had been such a big part of the Trump-Russia mythos... wouldn't he have talked about it?
Like, here's the list of government officials Fox News hoped would be investigated/arrested/jailed under the "investigate the investigators" rubric. They got... a failed charge against a lawyer no one had ever heard of. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…
Alas.
Wild stuff.
My brain is a wreckage of random right-wing catchphrases from various iterations of this nonsense. Obamagate, #ReleaseTheMemo, Uranium One, Operation Boomerang, and all the rest.

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May 8
Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration.

She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic."

Gonna thread some of her lowlights.
Pirro stands out, even among the long list of shills and propagandists Fox employs, as a diehard Trump sycophant. In 2018, my late colleague Simon Maloy wrote that her "advocacy for the president is so aggressive that it often borders on insane -- some of her commentary would be at home in an authoritarian state media apparatus." mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/…
Just a deranged level of demagoguery:
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Jan 14
Here's a thread of notes on Pete Hegseth, the Fox & Friends weekend co-host that Donald Trump is trying to make Defense Secretary, overseeing the U.S. military, massive Pentagon budget and bureaucracy, and sixth in line to the presidency.
Hegseth is an extreme hawk who has backed attacks on Iranian infrastructure and cultural sites and even floated a “preemptive strike” against North Korea. mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth/t…
Hegseth has complained that military rules of engagement in combat zones are “a huge problem” and were “written for us to lose.” He's backed that up by successfully lobbying Trump to give clemency to alleged and convicted U.S. war criminals. mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth/t…
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Oct 30, 2024
Not going to bother to find out what he said in order to express regrets to Puerto Ricans that it happened, fascinating stuff!
Takeaway from the truck stunt is Trump won’t say anything bad about the supporter who spoke at his rally and called PR garbage, and indeed doesn’t seem able to even denounce the comment.
He’s just giving those influential Puerto Ricans who have been expressing outrage about the comments all week new material to post about, insane self-own.
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Oct 30, 2024
Trumpy billionaires are hoping to ride a wave of grievance into power, then use it to cut their own taxes and demolish their competitors. Image
In exchange for his support, Trump is offering Elon Musk the power to, in Musk's own telling, destroy Tesla's domestic competitors. Image
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The result would reverse the domestic manufacturing renaissance spurred by the Inflation Reduction Act, eliminating good jobs in Republican parts of the country. Image
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Oct 25, 2024
It is depressing but somehow not surprising that 11 days before an election that the NY Times’ publisher and top editor warn could destroy the U.S. free press, the paper is spending time taking down good-faith critics (me) who argue its content doesn’t meet that moment. Image
Let’s go through this from top to bottom. semafor.com/article/10/24/…
The Semafor write-up doesn’t include the relevant Times data and its characterization of our findings is much broader than what we actually wrote.

Here’s the study, let me explain what we actually did and reported. mediamatters.org/new-york-times…
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Oct 16, 2024
Fox's women voters town hall is very obviously packed with Donald Trump supporters, opens with a standing cheering ovation for him.
The first question at the Fox town hall went to a Lisa who looks a lot like Lisa Cauley, president of the Fulton County Republican Women -- even the necklace matches. fultonrepublicanwomen.com/team/lisa-caul…Image
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This is a Trump campaign event with an audience of his supporters and a moderator who is doing everything possible to help him out, which makes sense since Fox News is a Republican propaganda outlet.
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